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title: She called to him to come to her, and great was the joy of these lov… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She called to him to come to her, and great was the joy of these lovers at seeing each other again. Who acts: Princess, great joy. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 209

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She called to him to come to her, and great was the joy of these lovers at seeing each other again.

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**Who acts:** Princess, great joy · **What happens:** call, come, be, see · **To what, where:** Aladdin, Princess, great joy, each · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, great joy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:12:209
# text = She called to him to come to her, and great was the joy of these lovers at seeing each other again.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	19	obj	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	fixed	_	_
22	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | Princess |  | Aladdin |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* |  | Princess |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | the great joy |  |  |  | of this lovers | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | gerund | the great joy *not said here* | each |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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